Add CoreAudio tap permission handling#765
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* Add Core Audio and tap input module for macOS (#765) - add input/coreaudio.c, input/coreaudio.h - add Objective-C CoreAudio tap backend (input/coreaudio_tap.m) - tap will be used by default to capture audio directly from default output * clean up configure.ac no need to give warnings about missing audio input libs debug stuff removed * Add CoreAudio tap permission handling * add coreaudio permission detection and requests --------- Co-authored-by: Joshua Chan <121840186+Melonchanism@users.noreply.github.com>
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Using private apis found in TCC.framework, it is possible to detect whether system audio permissions have been granted to cava. It is not* possible to cause a system prompt to appear, because it requires a
NSAudioCaptureUsageDescriptionkey in the terminal emulator'sInfo.plist. It is possible to open the settings page by opening a link and prompt the user to grant permissions manually, which is what is done here.*requires more digging